Link
Link verb - To put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole.
Usage example: she linked the flowers together to form a long chain
Sever
Sever verb - To set or force apart.
Usage example: disapproving parents who were willing to do anything to sever the young lovers
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In both versions, Sophie kills herself to sever Diana's only link to the physical world, but in the extended ending it didn't actually work so her family had to put Diana down another way.
Source: Focus Group Ending -
Heroic Sacrifice: Ksendra dissipates herself in order to sever the spirits' link to Jonas.
Source: Webcomic / The Phoenix Requiem - The Wreckers comic used that explanation to add that Vector Sigma was Primus' link with the Transformers, while the Oracle was a shell program created by the Quints to sever that link, manipulate Vector Sigma and send some fake prophecies.
Source: Doing In the Scientist
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Sever and Link. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/link/sever
Link & Sever. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/link/sever>.
Sever or Link. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/link/sever.
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